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April 25

Broken SVG

I uploaded an SVG logo and got some sort of error, so I edited it in notepad and removed some stuff. This allowed me to upload it. Unfortunately it also made the image error out. Anyone know how to fix? The image is File:National Bank of the Republic of Belarus logo.svg. The source image is linked from there - and also if anyone can tell me what I should have edited out to allow me to upload it without the initial error I'd be very happy to know. Either way, thanks! Faceless Enemy (talk) 00:29, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(not an answer) @Faceless Enemy: if the image is copyrighted, you should not upload it as svg, but as raster graphics with a low-resolution. See WP:LOGO for details.

There is a strong argument that the logo is not eligible to copyright per Wikipedia:Logos#Copyright-free_logos, but if so you should tag it as {{PD-textlogo}}, instead of {{non-free logo}} Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 14:43, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Assistance changing article title

I created a new article for the CD Songs of our native daughters, and as you can see, the capitalization is incorrect, a result of not noticing this detail in the Search Results page's suggestion for creating a new article. I would appreciate if an admin can change the title to: Songs of Our Native Daughters. Thank you. Allreet (talk) 00:35, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Allreet: You can just move it yourself with the tabs at the top. I did it for you though. Faceless Enemy (talk) 00:43, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Live and learn. I'll check it out. Thanks for the fix. Allreet (talk) 00:53, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me, but I came here because of the heading of this help item - changing a draft Wiki article's title - and I still don't see how to do that. I've tried EDIT without success, and read above several mentions of "moving", without knowing how to do that either, let alone what it means. My article is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patients_and_public_involvement_(PPI), and I ought to change the title to Public involvement (PI).

Eric Deeson (talk) 16:00, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To learn about moving, read WP:moving. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:32, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Deeson, that's not a draft, it's an article. A page move requires a certain level of editing experience. I see the move hasn't been discussed at the article's talk page; is there any reason to believe this move would be controversial or that anyone would object to it? --valereee (talk) 16:35, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Check the entry for Billy Preston music personality

Some mental deficient did a job on it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.202.228 (talk) 05:38, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Another editor has fixed today's damage. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:18, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Page editing

How do I add multiple images on the info box of a page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TumRad (talk • contribs) 08:37, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

TumRad, see Template:Photomontage. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:08, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Guru Teg Bahadur

To

 Wikipedia peer review Team

Guru Teg Bahadur "hind di chadar" not shrist di chadar ☚ understood

please dont distroy that teg line it is a humble request once again to all "Wikipedia peer review Team"🙏

Please dont play with wards it is dangerous and shameful thing understood ☚

https://www.quora.com/Sikhism-Why-is-Guru-Teg-Bahadur-known-as-Hind-di-Chaadar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsmalhadia (talk • contribs) 08:39, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This page is for asking questions on how to edit Wikipedia. Do you have such a question? Please see the messages on your talk page regarding Guru Tegh Bahadur.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:50, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want a wikipedia page

I want a wikipedia page.Can anyone help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdarshRay (talk • contribs) 09:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@AdarshRay: Whether you "want a page" or not does not matter- and a Wikipedia article(not "page") is not necessarily something to want, there are good reasons to not want one. Wikipedia has no interest in increasing your internet presence or helping your career; it is only interested in summarizing what independent reliable sources state about article subjects that meet Wikipedia's special definition of notability. For people, that is defined at WP:BIO; there are also more specific guidelines for certain fields(athletes, politicians, etc.). If you truly meet the notability guidelines, someone will eventually take note of you and write about you. You can make a request at Requested Articles, but the backlog there is severe. 331dot (talk) 09:43, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[Edit Conflict] Assuming that you are the musician of that name, please read carefully the guidelines at Wikipedia:Notability (music).

If you can satisfy the conditions that several articles, each containing at least several paragraphs about you, have been published in professional newspapers, magazines or books which qualify as Reliable sources completely independently of you (which excludes anything based on interviews with you or publicity releases about you), then you will be "notable" in Wikipedia's meaning of the word, and an article about you will be possible.

If you cannot (yet) satisfy these criteria now, then no article is currently possible; however this might be a case of Wikipedia:Too soon and you might become notable and eligible in the future. When that happens it is likely that someone else will create an article about you. You should not do so yourself because of the reasons explained in Wikipedia:Autobiography.

We have strict rules that Wikipedia is not used for publicity or promotion, but only for documenting and summarising what has already been published by Reliable sources elsewhere.

If you think you can satisfy Wikipedia's rules on Notability, then you can place a request for an article here. It will be far more likely that one of the volunteer editors (we are all volunteers) will choose to create such an article if you include internet links or details of off-line publications conforming with the requirements described above and in the wikilinks. Best of luck! {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.2.132 (talk) 09:53, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Have all Watchlist links open in new tabs

Is there a way to have all Watchlist links (watched pages, diff, hist, user page, talk, etc.) open in new tabs instead of the current one when left-clicking them? The way I've organized my Wikipedia browser window is that the Watchlist page is permanently open and I'd like it to have that tab dedicated only to the Watchlist and nothing else. However, I often just right-click on Watchlist links end up closing the tab when I'm done, forgetting to navigate back to the Watchlist and necessitating opening and relocating a new Watchlist tab. My laptop doesn't have a dedicated middle click button and due to various reasons holding CTRL while right-clicking is really clumsy.

I wasn't able to find an option in Preferences to do this. If it's possible to do this with a script I'd appreciate help with that since I have very little experience with scripting. A browser extension could also work (I use Firefox) but I'd rather have something specific to Wikipedia that's works independently of which browser I'm using Wikipedia on. --Veikk0.ma 10:36, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

if (mw.config.get("wgCanonicalSpecialPageName") === "Watchlist") {
  mw.hook('wikipage.content').add(function() {
    $(".mw-special-Watchlist").find("ul.special").find("a").attr({
      "target": "_blank"
    });
  });
}

@Veikk0.ma: Try adding this to your common.js or skin.js page; it's compatible with the "Live update" feature. —RainFall 11:08, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@RainFall: Many thanks! This has made a big difference for me in usability. I'm also pretty sure that a lot of other people would find it useful if it was mentioned on the WP:CUSTOMWATCH page. --Veikk0.ma 07:50, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Veikk0.ma: Happy to help, but I'm not sure if I'll post it there. (I had never seen that page before... lol.) By the way, I've made some slight changes in the script above so you might want to update your common.js file. ;) —RainFall 08:18, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Most visited city

Why do you list Bangkok as the most visited city at about 20 million? Las Vegas had 42 million in 2018. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.249.177.154 (talk) 12:07, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at Bangkok#Tourism, it says "the top destination city by international visitor arrivals"(my emphasis). I assume that the bulk of Las Vegas' visitors is domestic tourism; if you have reliable sources that state otherwise, please offer them at Talk:Bangkok. 331dot (talk) 12:23, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How do you copy a subsection into another page?

~~Hi,~~

I think there is a way to copy a subsection into another page without copy-and-paste. The exact same words must always appear on both pages, and any changes apply to both pages. What template do you use for this? Thanks. --Epiphyllumlover (talk) 16:45, 25 April 2019 (UTC) figured it out--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 17:02, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Winfield S. Frazeur IV

Hello, my name is Winfield S. Frazeur IV and I am retired U. S. Navy Chief Photographer and a contributor to Wikipedia. I had a posting on myself on Wikipedia but now it no longer is online under Winfield S. Frazeur IV. What happened to it.

Winfield S. Frazeur IV — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C55:6B00:B86:A00A:1A67:CC7C:B446 (talk) 17:16, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, it appears this page was deleted on October 8, 2018. The reason given was: "None of the sources demonstrate notability; the only editor having contributed to the article is the subject (indeffed for socking); orphaned for six years except for a redirect which is itself an orphan." Let us know if you have any questions. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 17:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)Hello, the page was deleted as lacking notability / sources and also because it appeared to be an autobiography. See here for more details. Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 17:28, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to fix references on transcluded pages

How do you fix the named references which appear in red because the name is not part of the transclusion? For an example of this problem, see Interfaith_controversies_involving_the_Catholic_Church#Criticism_of_interfaith_dialogue_by_Pierre_Claverie,_a_French_prelate. Thank you.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 17:33, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Epiphyllumlover Reference names are not "remembered" across articles. You need to go back to the article from which part was transcluded (here, Pierre Claverie) and track down the place in that article where these reference names are defined (here, it is the lead section). Then, return to the article you're working on, and replace one instance of each reference name with the full reference: Bhunacat10 (talk), 20:08, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Epiphyllumlover: you can also move the "defining" ref in the parent article into the section which will be transcluded, and replace the existing "defining" ref with the "just the name" form of the ref. This keeps the ref from being duplicated in the reflist in the parent article. (If we ever get into a situation where a parent article provides multiple transclusion sections for multiple dependent articles, this trick will fail, but such a construct will also confuse the vast majority of merely mortal editors anyway.) you might want to add a little inline comment to ask future editors to NOT move the definition back to the first instance, to alert anyone who thinks they "should" be at teh first occurance that this is a special case. -Arch dude (talk) 21:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It works, no more references in the big red font.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 22:44, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Map Template generation

I would like to generate a map as a template similiar to the one on List of bays of the Philippines. Is there any programs that can take a input file full of coordinates, place names attribute pairs that can be read and spit out a map. Is there any apps that Wikipedia supports that could do it. Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 18:02, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Hi, I have seen articles with a note that says something like, "This article contains material from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica which is in the public domain." Is there a template for this note, or is it simply included in the citation? I have searched and can't find anything - and I was unable to find an article with the note, but I know I have seen it - thanks - Epinoia (talk) 18:14, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See Template:EB1911. DuncanHill (talk) 18:17, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- wow! - that's great - thanks! - Epinoia (talk) 18:21, 25 April 2019 (UTC) [reply]

Resolved

moving files to commons

There's a file that I think can be moved to commons, and I'd like to do so but I can't figure out the instructions. Is there a place I should ask for someone to help me with that? It's at mildred lager in 1918 --valereee (talk) 22:16, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: See Wikipedia:Moving_files_to_Commons. The file info is a little confusing to me, and I am not sure it is correct. It is copyright 1982 on a 1918 photo? RudolfRed (talk) 23:42, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think the uploader was confused -- 1982 was the year he was given the photo, I believe. And yep, that was the page I was looking at but couldn't figure out. The flowchart made my head hurt. --valereee (talk) 08:54, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I think I did it...waiting for some bot to put a warning on my talk page lol. Thanks for the help! --valereee (talk) 10:19, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]